To paraphrase a familiar adage, “A writer’s gotta do what a writer’s gotta do.” So I’m doing it. Because it has to be done sometime. No...

I remember hearing my Nannie Summers comment that time flew faster and faster as one got older. I never understood that as a child. It...

I’m thankful that I live in a country that affords me great freedoms, of expression, of worship, of opportunities to better myself, and...

That said, I was reading for pleasure a few nights ago (an historical novel, no less!) when my editorial alarm went off like an air-raid...

Mathis, Jim. The Fourth Quarter (Overland Park, Kan.: Mathis Books, 2018). Paper, 102 pages. Available https://jim-mathis-writerjimmathis...

Don’t you just hate it when you buy (or buy into) something that has been highly touted but once you get it doesn’t meet your...

Often, we cannot truly appreciate someone or what they have experienced or done until we’ve walked the proverbial mile in their shoes. In...

To fully appreciate what I’m saying, one must understand the backstory, realizing the change that took place in DMV over the years....

Readers of this blog know by now that I’m a bibliophile, I love books and reading them. Granted, I’m selective in what I read, but within...

“Write what you know.” “Your writing becomes like what you read.” Since I began writing for publication back in the late 1970s/early...

I suspect, however, that for many attendees a better name might be Ignite2Write, because they often leave the conference inspired to...

I’ll soon be leaving the safety and security of my writer’s cocoon and venturing well beyond my comfort zone. And for an introvert like...

I finished reading Louis L’Amour’s memoir Education of a Wandering Man last week in the spare moments when I wasn’t writing or doing...

As readers of this blog already know, I tend to prefer reading nonfiction over fiction. But they also know that I’m trying to break out...

It’s school time again. You can’t avoid knowing that fact because of all the Walmart aisles crowded with school supplies for sale. (I...

Beyond the fact that it was a work of fiction, which I seldom read (but have been trying to open myself to more often), it had a...

For fifteen years, we had sped past the place just off I-95 in Pooler, Georgia. Every time we had driven to visit my in-laws in Florida...

When my wife and I moved to our current residence, one of the first things that went on our “we-want-to-do-this-to-the-property-some-day”...

“We want to live in the present,” he said, “and the only history that is worth [anything] is the history we make today.” Sadly, that...

I was impressed the minute the man got out of his truck. My appreciation for him grew by the minute. When the installer arrived, two...